Real Estate – Beach Comber

Before they neatly landed on our laps courtesy of last year’s ‘Days’ New Jersey band Real Estate already had form. Witness the opening cut from their 2009 debut, a simple rolling jangling number that dispenses with widescreen theatrics in favour of plain old chord changes and pretty indie boy vocals. It’s our staple, our meat and 2 veg and the sort of stuff that will be playing on our tombstone whenever they get around to figuring out how a piece of stone can play music on rotation long after the flowers have wilted. Don’t mind the rickety production as this is a band who had figured it all out by the time they had unveiled their next set of tricks. KD